Post Tagged with: "Google News"

Should Google Curate Content to Curb Prominence of Sensational News?

Should Google Curate Content to Curb Prominence of Sensational News?

Back in June on Real Time With Bill Maher- on an episode with David Carr of the New York Times and documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi- Maher lamented the model of coverage saturation when it comes to web news. Maher said: “The New […]

Google News Announces New Way For Publishers To Showcase ‘Standout’ Content

Google News Announces New Way For Publishers To Showcase ‘Standout’ Content

Google News employees over the weekend unveiled a new content tag that allows publishers to be feature their “standout” content. According to Google the new “standout” tag is meant to highlight content that brings “exceptional original reporting, deep investigative work, scoops […]

Google & Associated Press Team Up With Online News Association, Give Away Journalism Scholarships

Google & Associated Press Team Up With Online News Association, Give Away Journalism Scholarships

The Associated Press and Google want digital journalism writers to improve their craft and to help with that goal they have launched a national scholarship program for digital journalism students. The program is being administered by The Online News Association, […]

5 New Media Discovery Services You Should Be Browsing

5 New Media Discovery Services You Should Be Browsing

News aggregation means big business these days, that fact became apparent when AOL purchased the Huffington Post for $315 million. While HuffPost does offer many excellent original news stories, at the time of sale more than 3,000 bloggers helped aggregate […]

Google News Platform Now More “Tablet Friendly” For iPad And Android Devices

Google News Platform Now More “Tablet Friendly” For iPad And Android Devices

Google on Wednesday implemented several changes to the Google News website, making it more “tablet-friendly” for iPad and Google Android tablet users. Among the sites new optimized look is a homepage and section pages that feature columns so users can […]

Google News Begins Highlighting Unique Content With “Editor’s Picks”

Google News Begins Highlighting Unique Content With “Editor’s Picks”

Google on Thursday announced via their official company blog that Google News will now feature unique content hand picked by Google News publishers. According to Google the picks will involve: Long-form investigative features, compelling photo slideshows or interactive maps and […]